Rasika Kalyanikar

The rain brought with it,
your memories today..
And I yearned for your presence...
I would have hid behind you,
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The sun is set now...
The last hue seems to have dived
into the ocean of darkness...
You have put up a strong face
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The crowd of words silences me these days...
And the silence alone crowds then...
It is pinching..torturing...
Even blabbering seems to go well...
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The cusp on my forehead disappeared
when you entered yesterday...
It was difficult to keep holding the tears of bliss..
They so wanted to surrender...fall off...
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I had an urge to look back today..
I did..and I wonder how far have I traveled?
Alas! ! I have come too far from my safe haven!
Maybe I must go back...maybe I should not..
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So beautiful to be fondled in your dream's arms..
I blink slowly...
Immersing as much as I could in the vastness of their wings..
For I know of no boundaries there..I can fly..gladly...
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Early morning when the dew drops danced,
I curled up in you,
they reflected our faces,
looking into your eyes i feel now your tear drop
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My smiles conspire with my tears,
my cheeks rise up to show their dimples,
when my eyelashes try to hide the waves
behind them..
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Lightening breaking the silence of the clouds,
Tasting salvation, momentarily, from the handcuffs of wind;
Indecipherable I find this cipher,
That their magnificence is reckoned
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You took me in your arms,
And I snuggled in..
The clouds hid the moon,
and eloped the moon light..
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I asked You for my sublimation,
But I seek times indulgence now,
to sit and ponder..I sense you in the dancing cool breeze
calming the agonized.
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Few thoughts have long left me,
Some caught, some at rest,
A handful even smear the very truth of my existence..
I close my eyes now,
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Happiness is not a mirage, an illusion..
True bliss is something like highest of good spirits
conspiring together to compose the finest symphony..
An oasis in the vast ocean of sand..
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I am standing still...
Dumbstruck...
You no longer are with me...
But you have to exist...
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